CVE-2024-42311CWE-908

CVE-2024-42311

High · published August 17, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
19.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hfs: fix to initialize fields of hfs_inode_info after hfs_alloc_inode()

Syzbot reports uninitialized value access issue as below:

loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 64

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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hfs_revalidate_dentry+0x307/0x3f0 fs/hfs/sysdep.c:30

hfs_revalidate_dentry+0x307/0x3f0 fs/hfs/sysdep.c:30

d_revalidate fs/namei.c:862 [inline]

lookup_fast+0x89e/0x8e0 fs/namei.c:1649

walk_component fs/namei.c:2001 [inline]

link_path_walk+0x817/0x1480 fs/namei.c:2332

path_lookupat+0xd9/0x6f0 fs/namei.c:2485

filename_lookup+0x22e/0x740 fs/namei.c:2515

user_path_at_empty+0x8b/0x390 fs/namei.c:2924

user_path_at include/linux/namei.h:57 [inline]

do_mount fs/namespace.c:3689 [inline]

__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3898 [inline]

__se_sys_mount+0x66b/0x810 fs/namespace.c:3875

__x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x140 fs/namespace.c:3875

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hfs_ext_read_extent fs/hfs/extent.c:196 [inline]

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hfs_get_block+0x92d/0x1620 fs/hfs/extent.c:366

hfs_ext_read_extent fs/hfs/extent.c:196 [inline]

hfs_get_block+0x92d/0x1620 fs/hfs/extent.c:366

block_read_full_folio+0x4ff/0x11b0 fs/buffer.c:2271

hfs_read_folio+0x55/0x60 fs/hfs/inode.c:39

filemap_read_folio+0x148/0x4f0 mm/filemap.c:2426

do_read_cache_folio+0x7c8/0xd90 mm/filemap.c:3553

do_read_cache_page mm/filemap.c:3595 [inline]

read_cache_page+0xfb/0x2f0 mm/filemap.c:3604

read_mapping_page include/linux/pagemap.h:755 [inline]

hfs_btree_open+0x928/0x1ae0 fs/hfs/btree.c:78

hfs_mdb_get+0x260c/0x3000 fs/hfs/mdb.c:204

hfs_fill_super+0x1fb1/0x2790 fs/hfs/super.c:406

mount_bdev+0x628/0x920 fs/super.c:1359

hfs_mount+0xcd/0xe0 fs/hfs/super.c:456

legacy_get_tree+0x167/0x2e0 fs/fs_context.c:610

vfs_get_tree+0xdc/0x5d0 fs/super.c:1489

do_new_mount+0x7a9/0x16f0 fs/namespace.c:3145

path_mount+0xf98/0x26a0 fs/namespace.c:3475

do_mount fs/namespace.c:3488 [inline]

__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3697 [inline]

__se_sys_mount+0x919/0x9e0 fs/namespace.c:3674

__ia32_sys_mount+0x15b/0x1b0 fs/namespace.c:3674

do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 [inline]

__do_fast_syscall_32+0xa2/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:178

do_fast_syscall_32+0x37/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:203

do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/common.c:246

entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x70/0x82

Uninit was created at:

__alloc_pages+0x9a6/0xe00 mm/page_alloc.c:4590

__alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:238 [inline]

alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:261 [inline]

alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:2190 [inline]

allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2354 [inline]

new_slab+0x2d7/0x1400 mm/slub.c:2407

___slab_alloc+0x16b5/0x3970 mm/slub.c:3540

__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3625 [inline]

__slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3678 [inline]

slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3850 [inline]

kmem_cache_alloc_lru+0x64d/0xb30 mm/slub.c:3879

alloc_inode_sb include/linux/fs.h:3018 [inline]

hfs_alloc_inode+0x5a/0xc0 fs/hfs/super.c:165

alloc_inode+0x83/0x440 fs/inode.c:260

new_inode_pseudo fs/inode.c:1005 [inline]

new_inode+0x38/0x4f0 fs/inode.c:1031

hfs_new_inode+0x61/0x1010 fs/hfs/inode.c:186

hfs_mkdir+0x54/0x250 fs/hfs/dir.c:228

vfs_mkdir+0x49a/0x700 fs/namei.c:4126

do_mkdirat+0x529/0x810 fs/namei.c:4149

__do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4164 [inline]

__se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4162 [inline]

__x64_sys_mkdirat+0xc8/0x120 fs/namei.c:4162

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b

It missed to initialize .tz_secondswest, .cached_start and .cached_blocks

fields in struct hfs_inode_info after hfs_alloc_inode(), fix it.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00284 · 19.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-908 · Use of Uninitialized Resource
Published
2024-08-17T13:15Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel< 4.19.3204.19.320
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.20, < 5.4.2825.4.282
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.2245.10.224
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1655.15.165
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1036.1.103
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.446.6.44
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.10.36.10.3
References (10)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 AUG 09:09Z
    hfs: fix to initialize fields of hfs_inode_info after hfs_alloc_inode()
    cvelistv5